"In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Ruling that the Palin administration didn't have the authority to offer payments, a state judge quickly put a halt to them but not to the shooting of wolves from aircraft."

"In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Ruling that the Palin administration didn't have the authority to offer payments, a state judge quickly put a halt to them but not to the shooting of wolves from aircraft."

i thought wolves were a protected species. i remember watching a piece on national geographic about the grey wolf. they were actually blaming a large percentage of environmental issues on man removing predators from wildlife and allowing the prey to feed and destroy natural inhabitants.

i believe they did their study on yellowstone park, where they were nearly extinct from hunters killing them off. you would have thought that they had a draught there from the impact it caused. interesting piece. they even had farmers pleading that they have them protected at the cost of the livestock they were losing to them.